Armoured spiderman: morphological and behavioural adaptations of a specialised araneophagous predator (Araneae: Palpimanidae)

• Authors: PEKÁR Stanislav; ŠOBOTNÍK Jan; LUBIN Yael
• Year of publication: 2011
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Naturwissenschaften
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-011-0804-1
• Field: Zoology
• Keywords: araneae; adaptation; predation
• Description: We investigated potential and actual prey of two Palpimanus spiders (P. gibbulus, P. orientalis) to support the prediction that these are araneophagous predators.

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